Two Identical Glass Beads
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We're going to play a game with two glass beads (as Hermann Hesse
may have said). Imagine a bead, a brightly colored glass bead. Now
imagine another bead, another brightly colored glass bead. Now
imagine both beads are the same shape, the same weight, the same
density, the same size, the same everything. In other words,
they're two identical glass beads. Now imagine you've got one bead
on the flat palm of your left hand and you've got the other bead on
the flat palm of your right hand. Now imagine you push both beads
into the same space. Imagine you literally push each bead
into the space the other bead occupies so the two beads both
occupy the same space at the same time. What do you
notice?
The first thing you may notice is it's impossible to
do this in the physical universe. In the physical universe, no
object can occupy the space occupied by any other object at the
same time. No two objects can be in exactly the same space at
exactly the same time in the physical universe. However, notice
what happens if you perform this process in the
experiential universe. What happens to the two beads
in your experience rather than in the physical
universe when you push each bead into the space the other occupies
so they both occupy the same space at the same time?
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